Russian businessman and restaurateur Yevgeny Prigozhin has applied to the European court with a demand to remove the text justifying his inclusion in the EU sanctions list as a sponsor of Wagner PMC. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of his company Concorde.

“Yevgeny Viktorovich filed an application with the General Court of the European Union with a request to remove the text of the unfounded allegation addressed to him, which the Council of the European Union cited to justify the sanctions measures imposed on December 13, 2021 against the non-existent Wagner Group,” the company said.

According to Concorde, the sanctions list states that Wagner PMC is supposedly “financed by Yevgeny Prigozhin.” At the same time, the businessman himself has repeatedly denied the existence of any ties between him and any paramilitary structures. Such accusations against Prigozhin are slander, which the Russian court has repeatedly proved, the company stressed.

It is noted that the restaurateur will seek to bring to justice "distributors of fakes", be it "the authorities of foreign states or recipients of Western grants."

Earlier it was reported that Prigozhin won a lawsuit against the Ekho Moskvy radio station and the writer Viktor Shenderovich (recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation).

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